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Results of the Contests From All
Over the Country.
NEW YORK STATE DEMOCRATIC.
Elections Held In Fourteen States?Pennsylvania
Goes Republican ? Roger
Wolcott (Republican) Chosen uovernor
of Massachusetts?The Kesults Close
in a Number of Western States.
Albany, N. Y. (Special).?New York State,
on the vote for a Chief Judge of the Court
of Appeals, has gone Democratic, Wallace,
Republican, receiving in the Stat^outside
of the city a plurality of 74,748 over
Parker, Democrat. The Democratic plurality
in Greater New York, however, was
133,053 for Parker, giving him a total plurality
of 53,310.
The vote w^s extremoly light all over the
State except where there were spirited contests
of a local nature. Wallace's largest
pluralities were in Chautauqua, St. Lawrence,
Broome, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Jefferson,
Oneida, Oswego, 8teuben and Washington
Counties.
There was no election for State Senators
save in the Jefferson-Lewis District, where
E. B. Brown (Rep.) was chosen to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Senator
Mullin.
The Bepublican disasters also include a
number of the cities up the State. Blnghamton
has gone Democratic for the first
time in a number of years, and Mayor Green
Is defeated. The Democratic ticket is
elected in Buffalo, and'Erie County gives
8000 majority for Judge Parker. Mayor
Maguire is re-elected by the Democrats in
Syracuse. The Democratic fusion ticket
wa9 successful in Rochester by about 2000.
Representative Odell has succeeded in holding
the city of Newburg for the Republicans.
Republicans Carry Massachusetts.
Spbinofield, Mass. (Special).?Governor
Roger Wolcott, Rep., was re-elected by an
estimated plurality of 88,000 over George.
Fred Williams, Democrat. This is a falling
off of the Republican plurality of 1896, when
the same candidates were in the field, of
nearly 70,000 votes. The Republican vote
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\ BOGEB WOLCOTT.
(Be-elected Governor of Massachusetts.)
mi otwov Qft nor cflnr from that nolled last
?n?; WW f
year and the Democratic vote fell off 20
per cent.
The remarkable decrease Is attributable
to the Inclement weather which prevailed
all over the 8tate on Election Day and tc
the general lack of Interest In the contest,
whloh was such a foregone conclusion a?
to be no contest at all. The election followed
the dullest campaign in years.
I Results In New Jersey.
Trxntos, N. J. (Special).?In the Ne^
Jersey local elections the Demoorats and
the Republicans appear to have divided tht
honor on a comparatively light vote. Th<
Democrats succeeded In electing Ave of the
?ix new State Senators, but the Republicans,
however, secured a majority of th?
Assemblymen, and the Legislature remain;
Republican. The Democrats swept Jersey
City and Hudson County by majorities
ranging from three to s&ren thousand. All
of the Democratic legislative and count;
officers were elected, including the eleven
members of Assembly.
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The Result In Ohio.
Columbus, Ohio (Special).?A careful estimate
at 1 o'clook a. m. gives the Legislature
to the Republicans by a majority of
two on joint ballot.
Chairman McConville, of the Democratic
Committee, practically concedes the election
of RuBhnell, Republican, for Governor,
by almo3t 12,000.
- - Pennsylvania.
i Habbisbubo, Penn. (Special).?The Republican
State ticket has a plurality of
from 124,391 to 140,531. Dr. Swallow, the
Prohibition nominee for State Treasurer,
polled 116,153 votes and carried Harrlsburg
and ten counties.
Kentucky Is Democratic.
Louisville, Ky. (Special).?Up to midnight
fifty counties out of 119 have been
heard from, and they show Democratic
gains.
8. J. Shackelford is elected Clerk of the
Court of Appeals. James R. Hlndman, the
gold Democratic candidate, has received
about 20,000 votes.
Reports from the various legislative
iHntrints throughout the State are to the
ffeot that the?bemoerats will have a majority
In the next General Assembly.
Maryland.
Baltimore, Md. (Special).?At midnight
partial returns from most of the counties
indicate that the Legislature will be close.
Although the Republicans win in the city,
the Democrats have played havoc In the
eounties. Gorman says that he has won In
the State.
Mr. Malster, the Republican candidate
for Mayor of Baltimore, has been elected
by at*>ut 5000 plurality, and the entire Republican
legislative ticket was successful
tu Baltimore City.
Iowa.
Des Moines, Iowa (Special).?The returns
from all over the State 3how heavy
Democratic gains, but the Republicans
have doubtless elected their State ticket
oy at leasi 21/,1/uv
Colorado.
Dexveb, Col. (Special).?The Bryanite
candidate for Supreme Judge is elected
over the McKinloy and Silver Republican
* candidate by probably 20,000 majority.
Nebraska.
Lincoln, Neb. (Special).?Thirty-five precincts
outside of Lincoln and Omaha indicate
the election of the fusion State ticket
by not less than 12,000.
Providence, R. I. (Special).?Rhode
Island held municipal elections in its five
cities, and the Republicans carried three of
them, ami made gains in Providence, re.
dueiug the plurality of Mr. liaker, the
Democratic candidate, by 1500.
Sioux FALLs.South Dakota (Special).?In
dications are that the Republican* have
won in South Dakota. Thoy elect six out
of eight circuit judges, and possibly tho
entire eight.
Richmond, Va. (Special).-On a light
*ote the Democrats carried Virginia by a
plurality of 50,000. The Legislature will
undoubtedly choose United States Senator
Daniel to succeed himself. It may also reelect
United States Senator Martin.
General Cllngman Dead.
General Thomas L. Cllngman, ex-United
8tates Senator from North Carolina, died
in the Morgantown (N. C.) Insane Asylum.
Aged, poor and infirm the State gave him a
kome there.
THANKSGIVING DAY.
President McKlnley Designates the Twonty-fiftlt
of November to De Observed.
Washington, D. C. (Special).?President
HcKinley issued his first Thanksgiving
Day proclamation as follows:
"In remembrance of God's goodness to
as during the past year, which has been so
ibundant, 'Let us offer unto Him our
thanksgiving and pay our vows unto the
Most High.' Under His watchful provilence
industry has prospered, the conditions
of labor have improved, the rewards
if the husbandman havo been increased
ind the comforts of our homes multiplied.
Bis mighty hand has preserved peace and
protected the Nation. Respect for law and
jrder has been strengthened, love of free institutions
cherished, and ail sections of our
beloved country brought into closer bonds
of fraternal regard and generous co-operation.
"For these great benefits it !s our duty
to praise the Lord in a spirit of humility
and gratitude, and to offer up to Him our
most earnest supplications. That we may
acknowledge our obligations as a people to
Him who has so graciously granted us the
i blessings of free government and material
| prosperity, I, William McKlnley, President
of the United States, ao neretty uesiguaio
and set apart Thursday, the twenty-fifth
day of November, for national thanksgiving
and prayer, which all of the people are invited
to observe with appropriate religious
services in their respective places of worship.
On this day of rejoicing and domestic
reunion let our prayers asoend to the
Giver of every good and perfect gift for the
continuance of His love and favor to us,
that our hearts may be filled with charity
and good will, and that we may be ever
worthy of His beneficent concern.
"In witness whereof, I have hereunto
?et my nand and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed.
"Done at the City of Washington this
twenty-ninth day of October, in the vear
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and ninety-seven, and of the independence
of the United States the one hundred and
twenty-second.
"William McKinley.".
By the President,
. John Shermas, Secretary of State.
GEORGIA'S GIANT FULL-BACK KILLED
Prominent Member of the Georgia University
Team a Victim of the Sport.
Richard V. Gammon, Georgia's giant full
back, was killed at Atlanta, Ga., la tne
great game between the University of Virginia
and the University of Georgia. Many
thousand people saw the game, and it was
not known to the vast crowd that the big
player had been fatally hurt. A substitute
was put in and the game went on.
Gammon was carried outside the lines
and several surgeons summoned. It was
soon apparent that he had been fatally
wounded. He had been thrown in tackling
and struck full upon his head, causing concussion
of the brain. While he lay dying
within three feet of the gridiron the same
went on to the, finish.
Gammon was a member of one of the
oldest and most prominent families in the
State. His father is a wealthy citizen of
Rome, Ga., and the family has always been
prominent in college athletes. Young
Gammon was a leader of the college football
team last year, although but eighteen
years old. He was one of the most popular
men in college and his tragio death has
thrown a shadow over the three hundred
students of the university.
His death stirred prejudice against the
game among members of the State Legislature,
which is now in session. 8ome legislators
expressed themselves as bitterly opposed
to the game, and it is probable that a
Dill may be passed makingitamisdemeanoi
to engage in a game of football in the State.
The faculty of the university has decided tc
1.11.11 11 i_ Tho foil m
prouiun LUC ^auic ill mo 1UIU1U,
ha3 disbanded.
NINE MEN DEAD IN A MINE.
Suffocated by Smoke In a Slope at Scranton,
Penn.
Nine men, part of the night sbift otwenty-eight
who were at work in Von'
storch slope of the Delaware and Hudson
Coal Company in the Northern part of
Scranton, Penn., were suffocated by a Are
in the main gangway. Thqse who lost
their lives were: Thomas Hill, foreman;
Thoma3 McDonnell, company hand; John
Yanjiowski, laborer; John Moran, track
layer, John J. Farrell, pump runner; John
Walsh, Thomas Flannery of Keiser avenue,
and two Poles, names unknown.
The Are started at 1 o'clock a. m.. In the
shanty on the slope where the vein branches
off, and soon had set the timbers and the
walls of coal ablaze. A column of smoke
swept on down the slope 1500 feet to the
big Clark vein. Pump runner Edward
Simpsin smelled it, and calling the fire boss.
McCarthy, started out to investigate.
While ouside assistance wa9 being summoned,
they hastened to alarm the men
off in the far workings.
Nineteen of these were reached and hurried
out through the shaft about 1000 feet
away, but the men in the distant part of
the diamond vein could not be reached because
it was impossible to go through the
overpowering smoke to them.
An extensive cave occurred in the slope
just as a party of rescuers were readly to
enter and hring out the dead bodies. This
completely blocked the way.
A CREEK INDIAN EXECUTED.
John 8. Watka Pays the Penalty For
Killing Jonas Deer.
John S. Watka, the Creek Indian who
shot Jonas Deer, a member ci his tribe,was
executed for the crime at Chelsea, Indian
Territory.
The men were rivals for the hand of the
same girl, and fought at a dance at which
she was present to decide who should gain
her. Watka killed Deer and married the
Indian maiden.
Several day9 ago Watka made arrangements
for bis wife's future, and then set
out alone for the public execution grounds.
In due time he arrived and found the executioner
waiting. He assumed liis position
on bended knees, with arms tied behind
and a bandage over the eyas. He was shot
through the heart.
Late last summer Watka went to Kansas
City with a baseball nine of his fellowIndians
and played in a game at one of
the parks. He had ample opportunity to
3cape, but returned to the Territory oi
bis own accord, that his sentence might be
carried out.
Branding Seal* by Electricity.
The members of the Stanford University
party who have been engaged in branding
seals by electricity on PrlbylofT Islands
claim that the experiment was successful.
DarMae fKo r\t fhu anal r>unciio
and building a fence enclosing the salt lagoon
to prevent the redriving of bachelor
seals, a number of bird skins, skeletons, insects,
and marine invertebrates were collected.
Increasing: Silver Circulation.
Five Powers of the Latin Union, on the
initiative of Switzerland, have signed a
convention to increase the number of small
silver coins by a franc per head of their
population, using the existing flve-frunc
pieces to supply the necessary silver.
Trouble Over Meat ami Liquor Licenses.
Backed by Mayor Harrison, Corporation
Counsel Thornton will begin ft light on the*
department stores of Chicago. Proceedings
will be instituted in some justice's
court to compel the department stores to
observe the provisions of the Wulkernct.
Cycling Notes.
Zimmerman intends to go to Paris soon,
where he will give exhibition rides.
Almost even' day there is some announcement
in regard to the chainless wheel.
Walter Sanger has announced his intention
of retiring permanently from the cycle
i track.
American manufacturers aro busy with
gear cases which will meet all the objections
referred *0 and possess all the virtues
which the ordinary rider will require.
Mexico is aroused by the probable invasion
of the American riders this season.
Cycling Interests are very much alive In
the republic right now, and new tracks aro
being constructed. ;
j TAMMANY TICKET WINS,
Judge .Robert A, Van Wyck Elected
Greater New York's first Mayor.
SETH LOW AHEAD OF TRACY.
The Democratic Candidate Won by a
Plurality of About 86,000, and in Man?
hattan and the Bronx Almost Outvoted
Low and Tracy Combined?Tarnmanr'i
Entire City Ticket Tlctorioaa.
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New Yobk Citt (Special).?Judge Van
Wvck has carried Greater New York tor
Mayor by an estimated plurality over Low
of 86,931 and a plurality over Tracy of
about 129,000. He has swept every borough
In the Greater Now York. The entire D emooratio
city tioket has gono through with a
rush. The Democratlo county tickets in
JUDGE BOBEBT A. VA2T WTCIt.
(Chosen flrst Mayor of Greater New York.)
New York, Kings, Queens and Richmond
Counties are elected. The relative strength
of the various Mayoralty candidates, as Estimated
at midnight was:
Van Wyck 233,752
Low 146,821
I 100 998
George 20,386
Gleason and scattering 881
Judge Van Wyok's plurality in the boroughs
of Manhattan and the Bronx is about
66,360. Low's vote Is 75,579 la these two
boroughs, and Tracy's about 51,000.
Van Wyok's large vote has swept with
him into office his associates on the municipal
tloket and every candidate on the
county ticket, both In New York and Kings
Counties. Tammany and its allies will control
also both branches of the Municipal
Assembly.
The two greatest surprises of the day
perhaps, from the local point of view, were
the large falling off in the vote from the
total registration, and the Inability of
Henry George to hold together any peroeptible
part of the vote his father probably
would have obtained.
The total vote shows that nearly 80,000
registered voters failed to go to the polls.
Most of these, politicians figured out, were
Republicans, who, undecided whether to
vote for General Traoy or Seth Low, decided
finally to vote for neither.
The best estimate of the total vote of
each oandldate shows that had the solid
vote of Low and Tracy been combined on
Mr. Low he would have beaten Judge Van
Wyok by 14,000.
In the round up at the polls Tammany
was able to make its magnificent organization
felt. The results show that It succeeded
In capturing at least eighty per
cent, of the vote claimed for Henry George.
Another interesting fact is developed by
suoh a hasty study as can be given to the
returns. Judge Van Wyok got practically
the vote that was oast in New York County
last year for William J. Bryan. The vote
that was cast for MoKlnley appears to have
been, split up among Mr. Low, General
Tracy and Mr. George. This shows that
the free silver Democrats who voted for
Bryan last year voted for Van Wyok after
the death of George.
The Municipal Assembly will be overwhelming
Democratic. The Democrats will
have practically a unanimous vote in both
the Board of Aldermen and the Council.
Bird S. Coler and Randolph Guggenheimer,
the Democratio candidates for Comptroller
and President of the Council, are
eieotea, me iormer oy iu?,uuu over rucu,
Rep., and the latter By about 115,000 over
Appleton, Rep.
Tammany men owned the town and vast
crowds surrounded the bulletin boards.
Broadway and Third avenue, from Fourteenth
street to Forty-second street, especially
swarmed with a noisy crowd, most of
whom were oheerlng ior Van Wyck and
Tammany Hall and tooting horns. The
triumph of Tammany was formally announced
to the Indians in the Fourteenth
street Wigwam at exactly 9.15 o'olook. The
announcement was made by Richard Croker
In person, from the rostrum of the hall, and
it was received with a tiger yell that
drowned the music of the Sixty-ninth Regiment
Band and made the building echo
and re-eoho for full five minutes.
The indications are that, with the exception
possibly of six of the twenty-one Assemblymen
In Brooklyn and nine of the
thirty-five in New York, all the Tammany
candidates are elected. In Queens, four of
the Aasemblvmen are Democrats. The
Citizens' Union eleoted two Assemblymen
In New York County.
The present representation In the Assembly
from the counties in the Greater New
York is: New York County, 23 Demoorats
and 12 Republicans; Kings County, 7
Democrats and 14 Republicans; Queens
County, 2 Democrats and 4 Republicans;
Richmond County, 1 Republican.
Charles H. Van Brunt and Francis M.
Scott are elected to the Supreme Court
bench lu the First Department and Willard
Bartlett in the Second Department.
Union Pacific Railroad Sold.
The property of the Union Pacific Rail,
way Company oovered by the first mortgage
and the Government subsidy mort
| gage was offered at auction at Omaba,
Neb., recently. It was offered in one
parcel, and was sold to the Reorganization
Committee for ?39,883,231.87. The committee
also bought the bonds in the UnioD
Pacific sinking fund for $13,645,250.89.
Weather Bureau Report.
Last year the weather service co9t $883,772,
but* for this year Chief Moore asks
$1,044,000. Many objections were made to
the lack of stations, and the Chief says if
the heavier appropriation is made he will
endeavor to furnish weather predictions
with more promptness and accuracy.
National W. C. T. U. at Buffalo.
In her annual address before the National
Woman's Christian Temporanoe
Union at Buffalo, N. Y., Miss Frances E.
Willard referred to the defeat of the inter
I national arbitration treaty as the greatest
9orrow of the year to the organization.
Bank Robbers Escaped.
The lour men confined in tho Lawrcnco
County (South Dakota), Jail for robbing
the Belle Fourche Bank overpowered the
jailer and his wife, assaulted the woman
and escaoed into tho hills, takine with
them William Mooro, a colored murderer.
The robbers tire members of the desparate
Curry baud of outlaws and were captured
only a week ago in Montana after a sever?
battle.
Election IUot in Kentucky.
Four men were killed and two wounded
in an Election Day riot in Frankfort, Ky.,
resulting from an attempt by Republicans
to thwart a colonization scheme. >
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THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
TVasliington Item*.
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The Coates syndicate, 01 jjuuuou, nawu
President McKinley to postpone the sale
I of the Union Pacific Bail way to DecernI
ber 15.
Official circles In Washington express the
belief that there is nothing in 8pain's reply
to General Woodford's note to raise aD
issue with this country.
It was feared in Washington that the
Navy Department's ruling that the Marine
Band should not play outside engagement?
would drive out Its best members.
It is understood that the fur seal conference
has resulted in nn agreement to stop
pelagic sealing, and that the Russian and
Japanese delegates are awaiting final in<
structions from their respective Governments.
to which they have recommended
the acceptance of the'plan. It Is hoped to
9ecure the co-operation of Great Britain.
The report of Secretary of the Treasury
Gage suggests important changes in the
currency and natural bank law3.
Governor Pingree has been notified by
Assistant Secretary Roosevelt that Michigan
must at onoe accept the Yantlo or she
will be ordered to Boston.
The Internal Revenue report for the last
fiscal year showed receipts of $146,000,000,
\ decrease of $200,000.
Domestic.
Charles Bluejacket, a noted ohlef of the
3hawnee Indians, died, a few days ago, at
Blue Jacket, Indian Territory.
Ex-Congressman Smedley Darlington,
President of the Chester County Guarantee
Trust and 8afe Deposit Company, of West
Chester, Penn., and J. Mitchell Baker, a
ilrector. have been indicted, charged, re?pectively,
with perjury and embezzlement.
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UUUUUUCX 1'ibUU a OA^Oi bJ nuv uu T v MOVU
axamining Brooklyn's financial accounts
have reported that there Is a balance to the.
debit of the suspense account of $4,456,128.59.
Walter R. Houghton, the postal clerk who
was arrested at Cheyenne, Wyoming, for
theft of a $15,000 money order package, returned
to the office $14,700, which he had
soncealed In the barn and chicken coop at
his home.
The Georgia Cotton Oil Mill at Atlanta
was completely destroyed by fire. Everything,
with the exception of a few smaller
buildings, was burned to the ground. The
loss Is estimated at $117,000, $49,000 on
stock and the remainder on the building,
ibout $78,000 lnsuranoe was carried.
City Marshal Sterns, of Versailles, Ky.,
ihot and Instantly killed Jaoob Miller, a
prominent farmer and trader at Midway,
Ky. Miller resisted arrest.
Jacob Amos, married, aged forty-four
years, and Henry Bergenkreuger, single,
committed suicide at St. Paul, Minn., in a
lensational manner. They had been visit
Ing numerous saloons and were under the
Influence of liquor. They went out on the
Smith bridge to a point where It Is 300 feet
above the Mississippi and jumped over the
railing. The second man leaped before the
first struck the water. There were a namoer
of eyewitnesses to the double sulolde.
Amos was Trfiasurer of the Clgarmakers'
Union.
Balph A. Mavfleld, of Ohloago, died at
the home of his parents, ex-Senator and
Mrs. A. Mayfleld, in Lincoln, 111., after taking
morphine with suicidal intent. He left
a letter to his mother, assigning as the
principal reason for taking hl^ life the
death of a young woman to whom he was
engaged to be married.
The winter acreago in wheat in Oklahoma
is nearly double that of last year.
A.t this time it is certain that the Territory
has produced 25,000,000 bushels this year,
and if the yield per acre next year equals
that of this year the crop will reach 60,000,*
000.
The business seotion of Warren, Mass.,
was partly wiped out by a $75,000 Are. The
fire started in a paint shop, and got good
headway before it was discovered. Aid
was oalled from surrounding towns. The
Town Hall was damaged and several blooks
ruined.
Five of the largest flour mills at St. Louis,
Mo., have suspended operations. As a resuit
several hundred men have been rendered
idle. The conoerns are the Standard,
Plant, Merameo. Regina, and Jefferson
milling companies. Flour manufacturers
deolare the dosing of the mills is due to
the high price of wheat.
The bureau drawer of Mrs. Alios Norton,
a guest at the Hotel Bartholdi, New York
City, was robbed of $20,000 worth of diamonds.
The Silver Heels successfully landed her
oargo in Eastern Cuba despite the aotlvity
displayed by the Spanish naval authorities
to capture the little filibuster.
There was an Improvement in the yellow
fever situation In tne South.
The "Holy Ghosters," of Old Lyme,
Conn., accused of injuring an aged woman,
were held for trial.
A coroner's jury, In Camden, N. J., declined
to accuse Eli Shaw of the murder of
his grandmother, Mrs. Zane, despite the
prosecution's efforts.
Word has been received from Elbert, Col.,
of the death by freezing during the recent
blizzard of Mrs. Laura Hunter. She had
left her home to visit a neighbor, and was
overcome 300 yards from her home. Near
Monument, Col., John Roach was found
frozen in the snow. He was one of a thrashing
crew.
Judge Tenney, of the Criminal Branch of
the United States Circuit Court, New York
City, sentenced the counterfeiters of Costa
Bloa notes to two years' imprisonment and
fines of $2000 eaoh. A large batoh of other
counterfeiters and postal offenders were
also sentenced.
The building of the Union Trust Company
in Pittsburg was destroyed by fire.
The Missouri Presbyterian Synod has
adopted a resolution condemning the policy
of Princeton University with reference to
the use of liquor.
Mrs. and Mrs. O. H. P. Robinson, of Bellport,
Long Island, celebrated the sixtyfourth
anniversary of their wedding. Mr.
Robinson Is the inventor of ball bearings.
Dr. Helen Densmore, of California, who
for four years ha3 been working to gain
liberty for Mrs. Florence Maybriok, says
that it is bat a matter of weeks nntil the
woman is free.
James E. Simpson, who died a few days
ago at Fall River, Mass., was widely known
on both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of
the United States among ship builders,
ship owners and shipping merchants, being
the originator of timber graving dock*.
Mr. Simpson was born July 13, 1813, and
was therefore in his eighty-fifth year.
The Trustees of Sailors' Snug Harbor,
Staten Island, held a long session, at which
many old sailors testified to tacts snowing
the gross mismanagement of the institution.
The forgeries of Professor Frledberg. the
Toledo (Ohio) suicide, will run up to $50,000;
he had scores of victims.
Citizens of Tacoma and Olympla, Wash.,
have protested to President McKinley
against the establishment of a military
reservation at St. Michael's, Alaska.
Foreign.
The British forces in India captured the
Arhanga Pass with slight opposition. The
Ameer of Afghanistan has presented the
apology of the tribesmen to the Government
and asked for terms of pardon.
The Government has Instructed the
Governor of the Province of Tromsoe, the
most northerly province of Norway, to
charter a steamer at the expense of the
State, to provision it for six months and to
9end out a relief expedition for Herr
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Andrea, tne aerouuut wuu U9CCUUOU IU Ui3 i
balloon, the Eagle, on July 11 last from
Spitsbergen, 400 miles northwest of the
North Cape of Norway, in a proposed expedition
to the North Pole.
Marshal Blanco, the new Governor-General
of Cuba, arrived in Havana and relieved
Lieutenant-General Weyler of command.
According to the Madrid correspondent
of the London Standard, the Bank of
Spain has agreed to advance the Cuban
Treasury nearly $16,000,000, and the Treasury
of the Philippines nearly SG,000,000 on
the guarantee of the Spanish Treasury.
A Spanish Cabinet Committee decided to
satisfy the United States in the Competitor
case.
According to the report of spies, the Dervish
commander at Metemmeh, between
Berber and Khartoum, has announced in
the mosque that he lost 100 men during the
bombardment by British gunboats on October
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Secretary Wilson Submits the Annual
Review of His Work.
SOME STRIKING SUGGESTIONS.
He Kecommenda Placing: Agents of the
Department at American EmbassiesSay*
8382,000,000 Sent Abroad Fox
Sugar, Hides and Some Other Commodities
Might Hare Been Kept at Home.
Washington, D. C. (Special).?Secretary
Wilson presented his report to the President,
reviewing the operations of the Department
of Agriculture for the past year.
The most Important recommendation made
by him la one that agents for the department
should be stationed at each of oui
Important Atnerloan embassies for the collection
of information of Interest to oui
American farmers. Referring to this subject,
he says: "We are endeavoring to get
Information from foroign countries with
which we compete in the markets of the
world regarding crops and price. We are
also taking steps to ascertain what crops
are grown on different thermal lines, so
that seeds and plants may Intelligently be
brought to this country to assist in the diversification
of our crops and add to their
variety.
"There Is necessity for American agents
in every foreign oountry to which we send
reports who have had education in the
sciences relating to agriculture. The
agricultural oolleges endowed by Congress
are educating along these lines."
Thft Snnrfttarv rnr?nmm?nds an Increase
In the appropriations in aid of the Bureau
of Animal Industry, of the Weather Bureau,
and the publication offices. He
thinks the department should be enabled
to place the results of important operations
at agricultural colleges before the
entire oountry, so that the farmers of each
State may get the result of the good work
done in other States.
He refers to the efforts of the department
to extend the foreign markets for our
dairy and live stook products, which, he
thinks, can be done by making the foreigners
familfhr with them. Instead of send.
lng abroad for seeds, he says the policy In
the future will be "to encourage tne introduction
of such seeds as will enable out
people to diversify their crops and keep
money at home that is now sent abroad to
buy what the United States should produce."
Mr. Wilson says the department will continue
its pioneer work in the encouragement
of the sugar beet, and expresses the
opinion that the country will within a few
years raise all the 9ugar it requires. He expresses
the opinion that nearly all of the
(882,000,000 sent abroad last year for sugar,
hides, fruits, wines, animals, rice, flax,
hemp, cheese, wheat, barley, beans, eggs
and silk, might have been kept at home.
He also thinks the United States should
grow its own chicory, castor beans, lavender,
licorice, mustard, opium, etc.
With reference to horses, the Secretary
says: "The Amerioan farmer can grow
horses as cheaply as he can grow cattle.
We have a heavy and profitable export
trade in cattle, and may have an export
trade equally heavy and profitable in
horses. The department is gathering facts
regarding our horse industry at home and
the reaulrements of Durohasers abroad, so
that our farmers can learn what foreigb
buyers demand."
The most important work In which the
animal industry bureau has been engaged
is, he says, that looking to the destruction
of the cattle tick, for which, it is believed,
an agent has been found in a petroleum
Eroduot known as parafflno oil, In whlob
lfected cattle are dipped.
The extension of the meat Inspection
work to abattoirs engaged in inter-State
business is recommended, as is the continuance
of tbo inspection of export animals
In order to maintain the market which has
been secured for them In other countries.
The Secretary criticises the present system
of crop reporting. He says it is extremely
oumbersome, and that instead of conducing
to the completeness and accuraoy
It would appear from the report of the statistician
to In some measure defeat its own
object by its unwieldiness and by the faot
that the lnaenmte multiplication 01 crop
reporters weakens the sense of Individual
responsibility. He strongly favors the
making of some slight pecuniary acknowledgment
of the service of a careful, selected
corps of correspondents located mainly In
the principal agricultural States, and that
reliance be placed upon the State statistical
agents for Information regarding the Statee
of minor agricultural importance. He recommends
the employment of a principal
statistical agent in each State. ,
LONGSTREET IS PLACED.
Made Commissioner of Railroads? Moflat
a New Jersey Revenue Collector.
The President made the following ap
pointments:
James Longstreet, of Georgia, Commissioner
of Railroads, vice Wade Hampton,
resigned.
Henry 8. Pritohett, of Missouri, Superintendent
of the Coast and Geodlo Survey.
Mifflin W. Qibbs (colored), of Arkansas,
Consul of the United States at Tamatave,
Madagascar.
James E. Stlllman. Collector of Customs
for the District of Pensacola, Fla.
Isaac N. Moffat, Collector of Internal
Revenue for the First District of New Jersey.
General Longstreet, appointed Commissioner
of Railroads, is the famous Confederate
General, who ha9 been prominent in
the South 9ince the war as one of the leading
Republicans. General Longstreet was
recently married to a young lady of Georgia.
Judge Gibbs, who has been selected as
Consul at Tamatave, is one of the prominent
Republican colored men of the South.
A Work of Art.
An evidence of genuine enterprise and
liberality is shown by the publishers ol
The Youths' Companion, Boston, Mass., Id
giving all new subscribers to their publication
an art calendar for 1893?a gem of
beautiful color-work rar id aavauce ot aoythlog
of the kiod previously produced.
Also a magnificent Illustrated Thanksgiving,
Christmas and New Year's double
number of the magazine?each a prize-which
will be preserved by thousands ol
art lovers. By sending a coupon cut from
the advertisiog columns of the local papei
of this week or last week, and followiug its
Instructions, these artistic and valuable
productions can be secured.
Election Bets Declared Off.
An enormous sum of money had been
wagered on the election in Greater Now
York, and the greater part of it was placed
on the explicit or implied understanding
that all four of the original candidates J
should be in the race on Election Day.
The death of Henry George so changed
the conditions of the contest that a meeting
of the bookmakers who held most ol
the public's money was called, and, after n |
careful review of the situation, all bets
were declared off. As is generally the
case in such matters, private bets, unless j
otherwise stipulated, follow tho public i
ruling.
Promitieirt People.
James Lane Allen, the novelist, will soon j
j visit England.
George 51. Pullman's estate is expected
to reach ?25,000,000, and his will makes
many public bequests.
President McKinley has sot the fashion
In Washington of equestrian exercise and
pleasure, but he will Dot ride a horse with
a "banged" or "docked" tail.
51x3. John Jacob Astoris an accomplished
tovi/lormlat- Sim lpftrned thn n.rt in nrilur
to preserve with her own hands the
trophies of her skill as a huntress.
The Queen recently sent the boy King of
Spain the Victorian order, and was very
pleased with the autograph letter in which
His Little Majesty acknowledged the honor.
?
DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
SABBATH DISCOURSE BY THE NOTEO
DIVINE.
Oaties of Men Toward Their Suffering
Brethren of the Present Generation?
Clothing ot the Sonl Should Keep Pa<?
With That of the Physical Wants of Man
Text: "David, after ho had served his .
own generation by the will of God, fell on
sleep," Acts xilt., 26.
"That Is a text which has for a long time
been running through my mind. 8ermons 1
have a time to be born, as well as a time to 1
die; a cradle as well as a grave. David.
uuwU'jy nuu obuuo-oiuiKOi:, auu iuuu
czar, and dramatist and blank verse writer,
and prophet, did his best for the people of
his time, and then went and lay down on
the southern hill of Jerusalem in that sound
slumber which nothing but an archangellc
blast can startle. There are about four
generations to a century, now; but In oldentime
life was longer, and there was, perhaps,
only one generation to a century.
Taking these facts into the calculation, I
make a rough guess and say that there
have been at least 180 generations of the
human family. With reference to them we
have no responsibility. We cannot teach
them, we cannot correct their mistakes, we j
cannot soothe their sorrows, we cannot heal '
their wounds.
"I admit that I am in sympathy with the
ohild whose father had suddenly died, and j
who, in her little evening prayer, wanted '
to continue to pray for her father, al though ]
he had gone into heaven and no* more '
noeded her prayers, and looking up into
her mother's face, said: 'Oh, mother, I 1
cannot leave him all out. Let me say, 1
"Thank God that I had a good father once, 1
so I can keep him in my prayers." ' But
the 180 generations have passed off. Passed 1
up. Passed down. Gone forever. Then 1
there are generations to come after our 1
earthly existence has ceased; we shall not ]
see them; we shall not hear any of their
voices; we will take no part In their convo- j
cations, their elections, their revolutions,
a a fViaii* frinmnha W a '
buctl uannaiiLvyuoo, uuun v*. iuiu p u-j. *? v
will In nowise afleot the 180 generations
gone or the 180 generations to come. Bat 1
our business Is, like David, to serve our 1
own generation; the people now living, '
those whose lungs now breathe and whose i
hearts now beat. Aod, mark you, it is not 1
a silent procession, but moving. It is a '
'forced march,' at twenty-four miles a day, 1
each hour being a mile. Going with that 1
celerity, it has got to be a quick service on j
our part or no service at all.
"Well, now, let us look around earnestly,
prayerfully, in a common-sense way, '
and see what we can do for ourgeneralion. 1
First of all, let us see to it tfrat, as far as 1
we can, they have enough to eat. The '
human body is so constituted that three 1
times a day a body needs food as much as 1
a lamp needs oil, as much as a locomotive J
needs fuel. To meet this want God has 1
girdled the earth with apple orchards, <
otange groves, wheat fields, and oceans full 1
of fish, and prairies full of cattle. And *
notwithstanding this. I will undertake to <
say that the vast majority of the human {
family are suffering either for lack of food '
or the right kind of food. Our civlliza- j
tion is all askew, and God only can set it '
right. Many of the greatest estates of to- 1
duy have been built out of the blood and 1
bones of unrequited toil. >1
"Don't sit down at your table with five or ]
air nniirmflfl nf Abundant SQDDlv and think 1
nothing of that family in the next street *
who would take any one of these Ave
courses between sonp and almond nuts and
feel they were in heaven. The lack of the
right kind of food is the cause of much of
the drunkenness. After drinking what
many of our grocers call coffee, sweetened
with what many call sugar, and eating
what many of our butchers call meat, and
chewing what many of our bakers call
bread, many of the laboring classes feel so
miserable they are tempted to pnt into their
nasty pipes what the tobacconist calls tobacco,
or go into the drinking saloons for
what the rumsellers call beer. Good coffee
would do much In driving out rum.
"How can we serve our generation with
enough to eat?" By sitting down io embroidered
slippers and lounging back in an
arm chair, our mouth puckered up around
a Havana of >the best brand, and through
clouds of luxuriant smoke reading about
political economy and the philosophy of
strikes? Not No! By finding out who in
this city bas been living on gristle, and
nanriin? them a tenderloin beefsteak. Seek
out some family who, through sickness or 1
conjunction of misfortune, have not enough
to eat, and do for them what Christ did for
the hungry multitudes of Asia Minor, multiplying
the loaves and the fishes. Let us
quit the surfeiting of ourselves until we
cannot choke down another crumb of cake, <
and begin the supply of others' necessities.
"It is an awful thing to be hungry," said
che preacher. "It is an easy thing for us
to be In good humor with all the world
when we have no lack. But let hunger
take full possession of us, and we would all
turn into barbarians and cannibals and
(lends. Suppose that some of the energy
we aro expending in useless and unavailing
talk about the bread question should be expended
in merciful alleviations. I have
read that the battlefield on which more
troops mft than on any other in the
world's history was the battlefield of Lelpslc?160,000
men under Napoleon; 250,000
men under Schwarzeberg. No! Noi The
greatest and most terrific battle is now being
fought all the world over. It is the
struggle tor food. The ground tone of .the a
finest passage in one of the great musical *
mnompnloftfla th A or+lot Sftvq WM sucrizest- ?
uaahoipivv/uw) ?wv j ? , 0u
ed to aim by the cry of the hungry populace
of Vienna, as the King rode through
and they Phouted: 'Bread! Give as bread I'
And all through the great harmoules of
musical academy and cathedral I hear the
the pathos, the ground tone, the tragedy
of uncounted multitudes, who, with streaming
eyes and wan cheeks and broken hearts,
in behalf of themselves and their families,
are pleading for bread.
"Let us take another look around to see
how we may serve our generation. Let us *
see, as far as possible, that they have
enough to wear."
The preacher dilated upon the curse of
drunkenness and Idleness, causing the
maelstrom that has swallowed down the(
livelihood of those who are in rage. But
things will change, and by generosity on
the part of the crowded wardrobes, and industry
and sobriety on the party of the
empty wardrobes, there will be enough for
all to wear.
"God has done His part toward the dressing
of the human race. He grows a surplus
of wool on the sheep's back, and flocks 1
bunlen of warmth, intended for transference
to human comfort when the shuttles j
of the factories reacbiDg all the way from j
Chattahoochee to the Merrimac, shall have c
spun and woven It. In white letters of E
snowy fleece God lias been writing for a c
thousand years His wish that there might y
be warmth for all nations. While others j
are discussing the effect of high or low tariff, t
or no tariff at all on wool, you and I had
better see if in our wardrobe we have noth- c
ing that we can spare for the shivering, or v
pick out some poor lad of the street and fl
take him down to a clothing store and fit 7
him out for the winter. *
"Again, let us look around and see how j>
we may serve our generation. What short- ^
sighted mortals we would be if we were f
anxious to clothe and feed only the most r
insignificant par.t of a man, namely, his
body, while we put forth no effort to .
clothe and feed and save his soul.
"We put a halo about the people of the
past, but I think if the times demanded
them it would be found we have now living
in this year, 1397, llfty Martin Luthers, ^
fifty George Washington?, arty L.aay nuntingdons,
fifty Elizabeth Frys. During our ^
Civil War more splendid warriors in North
and South were developed in four years ^
than the whole world developed iu the pre- i
vious twenty years. I challenge the four
thousand years before the flood and the
eighteen centuries after the Wood to show t
me the equal of charity, on a large scale. ,
of George Peabody. This generation of
men and women is more worth saving than
any one of the one hundred and eighty
geiierations that have passed off.
"How to get saved? Be willing to accept '
Christ, ami tuon accept nun lusmuiuuc
ously and forever. Get on the rock first, c
and "then you will be able to help others 8
upon tho same rock. v
"I confess to you that my one wish is to
serve this generation, not to antagonize It,
not to damage it, not to rule it, but to serve
it. I would like to do something toward
hojping unstrap its load, to stop its tears,
to balsam Its wounds, and to induce It to ti
put foot on the upward road that has at its a
terminus acclamation rapturous, and gutes o
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pearly, and garlands amaranthine, and
fountains rainbowed, and dominions en- ..
throned and coroneted, for I cannot forget
f-hot lullnhv (n t.lin nlnsfnir ^rorrts ftt mi
text: 'David, after he bad served bis own
(feneration by the will of God, fell on sleep.' ^
What a lovely sleep It waal Unfllial Absalom
did not trouble it. Ambitious Adonijah
did not worry it. Persecuting 8aul did not
harrow it. Exile did not fill it with nightmare.
Since a red-headed boy, amid hie.
father's flocks at night, he had not had
9uob a good sleep. At seventy years of age /.
he lay down to it. He had had many a "<
troubled sleep, as in bis caverns of Adullam,
or in the palace at thetfanehUenepiles
were attempting; his capture. But this was
a peaceful sleep, a calm sleep, a restful
sleep, a glorious sleep. 'After he had :l,
Berved his generation by the will of God,.he
(ell on sleep.'
"Oh. what a good thing is sleep after a i
bard day's world It takes all tne acning
oat of the head, and alt the weariness oat
of the limbs, and all the smarting oat of the
syes. From It we rise in the morning, aal.
It is a new world. And If we, like David" ...
serve our generation, we will at life's close.
bave most desirable aad refreshing sleep,
[n it will vanish our last fatigue of body,
our lost worrlment of mind, ourlastsapfow <.?'
of soul. To the Christian's body that was j
hot with raging fevers, so that the attendants
mast by sheer force keep on the blank- . . * -"
sts, it will be the coolsleep. To those who
fire thin-blooded and shivering with ague* - >
It will be the warm sleep: To those who,
because of physical disorders, were terrified
with night visions, it will be to the dreamless
sleep. To nurses and doctors aad ;<3
mothers who were wakened almost
hour of the night by thbse to whom they
mini rtered, or over whom they wat^lied; ft
?111 J<-i 1 1 IK. FjiltiuA
Win ue tun uuuubuiucu oicuy. xv .
who could not get to bed tUl fate lit njgbt>-. V, dud
must rise early In the morning'and b?- V
(ore getting rested, It will be the long
sleep. ' & ' I '??<?
"Away with all your gloomy talk about
departing from t!ii* world! If we nave
served our generation It will not be put- ''\4
tlDj? out Into the breakers: It will'mot be
the fight with the King of Terrors; It will ' 'i
be going to sleep. A friend, writing me . :
trom Illinois, says that Rev. Dr. Wlngate, 3*j
President of Wake Forest College, North
Carolina, after a most useful life, found
his last day on earth his happiest day, and
that In his last momenta be seemed to be'; -1. >
personally talking with Christ, as friend
with friend, saying: 'Ob, how dbsllghtfol d
It Is! I knew you would be With ma when -. fi
the time came, and I knew It wonldbe^v'tW;
3weet, but I did not know it woult be as
sweet as it is.' The fact, was, he < had
served his generation in the gospef btia* '
Istry, and by the will of God he fell asleep. '\"l
When In Afrlea, MaJwan, the servants
looked Into the tent of David Livingstone,
and fouud him on bis knees, he stepped
back, not wishing to disturb him In prayer,
and some time after went- in and found
blm in the same posture, and stepped back
again; bat after awhile,' went Jto' aad . 3
touched him, and, Io! the great traveler
bad finished his last journey, and he Ma' . ; <
lied In the grandest and mightiest.postott ;
i man ever takes?on bin knees. He had
served his generation by unrolling the
scroll of & continent, and by the wtU'o?-.; r
Ood fell on sleep. In the musoum of
Greenwich, England, there Is a Jj?gmenfc
}f a book that was found on the arctfo
regions, amid the relics of Sir John Franxiln,
who had perished amid the snotr' and
ce, and the leaf of that piece of a book
ivas turned down at the words: "Whoa
:hou passest through the waters I will b* .
with thee.' Having served his generation
n the cause of science and discovery,- by
:he will of God he fell on sleep.
"Why will you keep us all so qervous
:alklng about that which is only a dorml:ory
and a pillowed slumber, canopied J>y
in gels' wings? Sleep. Transporting
ileepl Ana wnat a gioncra* awaKeningr-*
r'ou and I have sometlmes been thoroughly jewildered
after a long and fatiguingourney^
we have stopped at a "friend** .
loose for the ni^ht, and after hours of
somplete unconsciousness we hare opened
>ur eyes, the high-risen sun full in our
aces, and before we conld fully eolleet our;
acuities, have said: 'Where am I; whose
louse is this, and whose are- fteee gatlens?'
And, then, it has flashed upon us
n glad reality. ''"'"if v yJff&i
"And I should not wonder if, after we tave
served onr generation, and, by the ^ a
rill of God, have fallen on sleep, the deep ;y3
leep, the restful sleep, we should awaken '
n blissfal bewilderment, and for a little"
vhlle say: 'Where am I? What palace is M
his? why, this looks like heaven! It ier ~T^
t is. .Why, there is a building grander than *
ill the castles of earth heaved Into anions- v :i
ain of splendor?that must be the palaoa >&J
>f Jesus. And look there; at those waHa
Ined with foliage more beantiful than any- V
hlng I ever saw before, and see those who ' ,
,re walking down those aisles of verdure.
?rom what I have heard of them those two '; j
calking arm in arm must be Hosas and' ' ,
nnlino K<m nf Wnunf flfnflf ftflH hA %i
lalting sun over Gllieon. And those, ttra .. >
ralklag arm la arm must be John and v -i
'aul, the one so gentle and; the other so / <
nighty. :-t;; ^'.1
" 'Bat I mast not look'any longer at
hose gardens of beauty, bat examine this .
roildingin which I have just' awakened.
look' out of the window this way and
hat, and up and down, and I And it is *
nanslou of immense size in whieh I,am ?
topping. All its windows of agate and
ts colonnades of porphyry and alabaster.
Vhy, I wonder if this ts not the "Honse.of - A
nany Mansions" of whioh I used to read?
t is; it Is. There must be many of my
[indred and friends in this very mansion.
lark! Whose are those voices? Whose are .;
hose bounding feet? I open the door aid
ee, and lo! they are coming through ail %
he corridors and up and down all. the
italrs, oar long-absent kiadred. Why, .
here Is father, there Is mother, there lire
he children. All well again. All ybuaig
Lgain. All of us together again. And as,w? >,
imbrace each other with the cry, "Newer: >;
nore to part; never more to part," the
irches, the alcoves, the hallways, echo and
e-eoho the words, "Never more to part:
lever more to part!" Then oar glorified
riendssay: "Come oat with as and see
leaven." And, some of them. bounding
ihead of us and some of them skipping beide
us, we start down the ivory stairway.
Lnd we meet, coming up, one of the Kings
>f ancient Israel, somewhat small of
tature, but having a countenance radiant
rlth a thousand victories. And as ail are
aAking obeisance to this great one of ;
leaven, I cry out, "Who is he?" and the
mswer comes: "This is the greaitest of all
he Kings; it is David, who, after he had V
erved his generation by the will of God, M
ell on sleep."' ' mk
A OLUUUI nt^wrTLf, i
"rench Jack the Rlpp?r Now Accused of
Nineteen Murder*.
There Is no longer any doubt that Vacher,
:he French Jack the Hipper, has the blpodest
record In the modern history of violent
rimes. He is now accused of nineteen
aurders, and two assaults on women. He
onfesses eleven murders, and admits there
pert) more, but he declines to give details,
lis confessions have bean fully substaniated
In most cases.
The latest charge is that of the murder
>f a girl of nineteen, Therese Ply. She
ras walking along a road near Blnarvllle, j
,t 5 o'olock in the evening of April 6 last,
rhen a man caught her by the throat and
hrew her down. The next day she was
onna dead, her body bearing thirteen
:Dife thrusts, while two fingers were out H
rom her hands. An investigation led to H|
10 results beyond the fact that a tramp, H
vho is supposed to be Yacher, had been H
cen on the road by peasants before and H
.ftor the crime. The wayfarer was de- H
cribed by the countrymen as having H
poken in a fantastic manner, lilee the H
nurderer now under examination, who H
las repeatedly declared that ho was raised H
ip by divine providence as a scourge to H
lumunity. H
The third person accused Instead of H
"aeher has now been cleared of the terri? H
>le suspicion. He is a peasant named Ban- H
ier. He was kept under arrest for three
reeks on the charge or muraering one ui
he shepherd lads, whose throat was cut
rom ear to ear.
Electrocuted by a Telephone Wire.
A rope with a loop in the free ead loft (
angling over the street from a telephone
riro iu Easton, Md., caught a button on a
arriage which was belug driven up the
treet and, wrenching the top from the
ehicle, threw out a woman who was riding
lit. She was severely injured and died in
he house to which she was taken.
Horse Market Improving. JjH
The horse market is improving by expor- mm
ations to Europe at the rate of 2000 horses BM
month. England and France take most
-